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VOL. 1,—NO. 14
NORTH CANTON, STARK COUNTY, OHIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1923
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Without
Varnish
Facts As Seen and
Heard In Life's
Highway.
By BEN LONG
ing for the paradise somewhere in
Babylonia. GJaser believed le had
found it in southern Arabia sufficiently
close to the.Tigris and Euphrates
rivers for establishing his theory."
What They Believe
"The human yearning for a future
paradise was not an acquired thought
of the primitive man, "but rests upon
a fundamental truth that man once
dwelt in a beautiful garden?" said
the newspaper man.
"You have stated Hie cane exacHy/'
said Dr. Toffteeu-
COMFORT STATION
IH NORTH CANTON
In the Cleveland Plain Dealer last
week was an article dealing with the
subject of two paradises on earth,
and an eminent scholar was quoted
as declaring that he believed the
Garden of Eden did exist at one
time somewhere in Egypt or Africa.
Looking through some old newspapers the other day I ran across one
containing the ^following account of
an interview with Dr. 0. A. Toffteen,
the noted authority on archeology:
It was while editing the Chieftain
in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, that Ben J.
Long becarne personally acquainted
- with Dr. 0. A. Toffteen, who was visiting that state as the guest of
Governor Cruse in 1911. As a conversationalist Dr. Toffteen has few
equals. He has been in every part of
the world, and numbers among his
friends the greatest scholars in
America and Europe.
Two Earthly Paradises
Dr. Toffteen says there are two
earthly paradises in Biblical history—
the Garden of Edem and the Garden
of Eden. The former is depicted in
the older Levitical dialect and the latter in the later diatect of Judah. In
the Garden of Edem man was not
\ yet named and he wore fig leaves
which were uukeeping with the climate. In the Garden of Eden, according to Dr. Toffteen, man, having
evolved a higher plane of intellectuality, wore the skins of beasts and
tilled the soil.
Come from One Locality
, The Hebrews have not alone handed
down the story of the Garden of
Eden, according to Dr. Toffteen, but
the Greeks, the Teutons, the Persians,
the Hindoo? and the Egyptians. This
fact leads to the doctor's conclusion
that all the races came first from
one locality and that the ancestors of
all races at 6ne time dwelt in an
earthly paradise.
■'The hone of Christians and Mohammedans," said Dr. Toffteen, "of
the warriors of Valhalla, and of the
Indians of the American prairies that
a future paradise is awaiting them
points out that the idea of the paradise cannot be the foster of the imagination of early man.
Handed Down for Ages
"In each instance the paradise traditions belong to the strata of a people's lore and have been handed down
through ages immemorial. But it is
ah established fact that a primitive
people is in no way capable of inventing a story like our narrative, define
it geographically and historically, and
make it conform to verified facts up-
" on which the succeeding ages are able
to rear their superstructures of popular lore.
"It is not denied that each people,
as time went on, adorned their paradise stories and made them fit local
and racial conditions; but the early
spread of the paradise idea among
divers races in distant countries, and
the fact that each paradise story embodies the essential facts of that tradition, compel us to recognize that all
these stories must have sprung from
a common source at a time when all
these races were still one people.
Located in Many Places
"The Greeks had their garden situated in Herperides, perhaps on the
lost island of Atlantis. The Teutonic
races had their well defined Asgard
and Midgard, the former garden of
the gods, the latter a garden of men.
Josephus, the Septuagint, and many
early writers postulated a locality i
somewhere in India, perhaps near the:
Himalayas, which would be sufficient;
to place the Tigris and the Euphrates
rivers within the horizon of the paradise. More modern scholars have
speculated on the highlands of Armenia as the true location of the;
paradise.
Establishing Their Theories
"It is true that here the Tigris and
the Euphrates rivers have their,
sources within a short distance of
each other and near are the sources
of the ,Phasis and Araxes, rivers
which should represent the Pishon
and Gihon ri\ers of the paradise
story. Kolchis would be the land of
Havilah nnd dish was to be sought
on the shore of the Caspian. The
'heads' of the four paradise rivers,
however,, do not denote the sources,
but the mouths of those rivers, and
more careful scholars have been look-
Have You Met Him
This Is the Man Who fa Making
People Happy
Room Is Just Back of the Town
HaO and Is Equipped With
Sanitary- Plumbing and. Other
Conveniences For Public.
CELLS IN JAIL IMPROVED
□
Still Soldiering
D
SCHILTZ AND COOK
SPEAK TO SCOUTS
WILLIAM ANDERSON
Taking Into account that modern
towns have comfort stations in the
business section the officials of North
Canton have established one just
back of the town hall. The plumbing
is of the substantial kind, nothing-
fancy, but made for service. The entrance to the room is on the paved
a!ley that leads to the fire engine
house. Everything about the place is
absolutely clean and practical, and
that it will be appreciated by the
traveling public is a waste of words
to say so.
This isn't merely a step in the
right direction, it is a jump of several yards and proves that one town
in Ohio with less than 2.0C0 resident
population has the correct idea in
handling present day problems.
Tlie Town Dads decided that the
health transient guests of the' police
department was an important one,
especially as it means keeping down
disease, so they ordered the two big
steel cages painted and a sanitary
toilet placed in each cell. Now while
waiting far the Judge or their friends
to bant up bail prisoners will feel
that they are in no danger of con-
Explain To Boys How It Paid
Them To Be Prepared When
They Were Out In The Open
Country After Game.
LADS WILL HIKE FRIDAY
way,
Sure
Take a long look at the face above.
It is that 'of WIlBain AioSexsaa, "a
young man of polite manners and . „ „ . ... ,
other excellent qualiti^ TClIiai^^^rt^>h